clientage
Example Sentences
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Much of Roman social life revolved around the system of clientage.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
It would be absurd for him now to furbish up the rusty weapons of the law and enter again upon the tedious labor of collecting a clientage.
From John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
The polite professional man secures the best clientage.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
In South America we also meet with at least one case of a tribe, or part of a tribe, which is in clientage to another tribe.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
He had been quite unable to devote his customary labor to the benefit of his law partnership and the good of their clientage during the two years that he was Mayor of Boston.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various
